Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the people of the northeast region were devoid of development for a very long time by the previous governments.

He was addressing a function after the inauguration of Northeast’s Vande Bharat Express train in Assam via video conferencing. Referring to the railway budget before 2014, he said that the budget allocated for North East now is Rs 10,000 crore which is four times the growth. “Northeast people were devoid of development for a long time by earlier governments.”